Key Stage 2/3 – Language, Literacy and Communication
English Literacy
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Audible has released a collection of audiobooks for free, which it says will be available ‘for as long as schools are closed’ |
https://stories.audible.com/discovery |
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English with Holly |
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| The Book of Hopes | https://literacytrust.org.uk/family-zone/9-12/book-hopes/ |
| Literacy materials from author – Oliver Jeffers | http://www.oliverjeffersworld.com/ |
| Literacy materials from author – Emily Gravett | https://www.emilygravett.com/ |
| Guides to help with drawing characters from favourite children books | https://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/series/how-to-draw |
| Collections of books and activities for reading online | https://www.lovereading4kids.co.uk/ |
| Collections of books and activities for reading online | https://www.worldbookday.com/resources/ |
| Pie Corbett – Russell Prue and Ian Rocky for daily English lessons at 9.30 am. | https://radioblogging.net/ |
| Oxford Owl – Reading resources for all ages | www.oxfordowl.co.uk |
| Teach Your Monster To Read – a fun game to help children with phonics and the art of reading | https://www.teachyourmonstertoread.com/ |
| EdShed – an excellent educational resource including a Spelling Shed, Maths Shed and Literacy Shed | https://www.literacyshed.com/home.html https://www.spellingshed.com/en-gb |
| English with David Walliams | https://www.worldofdavidwalliams.com/elevenses/ |
| PhonicsPlay – a very popular site who have decided to make their resources free in response to the coronavirus crisis | https://new.phonicsplay.co.uk/ |
| Seussville – the online home of the wonderful world of Dr Seuss, with games, videos and character profiles | https://www.seussville.com/ |
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Time for kids digital library free for the rest of the school year |
https://time.com/tfk-free/ |
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Teachit – Free resources for KS3, 4 and 5 all following the English national curriculum. |
https://www.teachitenglish.co.uk/coronavirus/english-resources |
| Pie Corbett literacy resources | https://mailchi.mp/talk4writing/home-school-booklets |
| A five-day Hay Festival Programme for Schools – free films for primary and secondary school children – will be broadcast 18–22 May. | https://www.hayfestival.com/c-247-programme-for-schools.aspx?resetfilters=true&localesetting=en-GB |
Welsh – Language
| Welsh Apps available through App Store |
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| Listen to welsh stories and rhymes | www.poridrwystori.org.uk/audio-stories www.poridrwystori.org.uk/audio-rhymes |
| BBC Learn Welsh – Stories, songs and activities | www.bbc.co.uk/wales/learning/learnwelsh |
| Cyw – watch children’s TV | www.s4c.cymru/ciwtiwb |
| Urdd Gobaith Cymru | www.urdd.cymru |
| Learn Welsh through Youtube video clips. | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnQn5WEZyIcKK9hcmlXtlBw |
| NGfL Cymru Resources – A series of interactive units including whole class activities to introduce vocabulary and language patterns to those that are beginning to learn Welsh | Interactive Unit Link |
| Y Cliciadur – Welsh newspaper for children which includes current topics, stories, quizzes, key dates, puzzles. You can also access their archives to read previous issues. | https://www.cynnal.co.uk/cliciadur/papurau/rhifyn_13/index.html |
| Gloywi Iaith – a brilliant interactive resource which helps pupils develop their grammatical skills and knowledge. | Resource |
| Ditectif Geiriau – A series of interactive activities to support the reading and comprehension book series, ‘Ditectif Geiriau’ for Key Stage 2. There are 4 graded books within the series, all of which include a range of activities and a wide variety of factual and imaginative stimuli. | Resource |
| Y Sbridiau – helps to improve Welsh language skills. | Resource |
| Cywirdeb Iaith – develops grammatical understanding and awareness. Focuses on correcting grammatical errors. | https://adnoddau.canolfanpeniarth.org/cywirdeb-iaith/ |
| Gweiddi- Welsh Digital Magazine | https://www.gweiddi.org/ |
| Songs – to help with mutation of words (‘Treiglo’) |
Languages
| Language-learning application www.Lingvist.com is opening up its platform to schools for free until the end of the school year. | www.Lingvist.com |
| Innovative language-learning application www.Speakly.me is opening its web and mobile applications up to schools for free until the end of the school year. | www.Speakly.me |
| Duolingo – Learn languages for free. Web or app. | https://www.duolingo.com |
| British Council – Resources for English language learning. | https://www.britishcouncil.org/school-resources/find |
| To help kids who are learning from home, educational software company Rosetta Stone is offering schoolchildren free access to its popular language courses for three months | https://www.rosettastone.co.uk/lp/freeforkids/ |